{"id":8330,"date":"2013-10-30T18:50:06","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T23:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=8330"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:28:55","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:28:55","slug":"edwards-r-e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/edwards-r-e\/","title":{"rendered":"EDWARDS, R. E."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Milan<\/p>\n<p><strong>EDWARDS, R. E.<\/strong>, cotton buyer; born Carroll Co. Tenn., in 1848; son of <strong>W. J. and Marjorie (Algee) EDWARDS<\/strong>; English descent; educated Bethel College; married in 1873; member of K. of P. and Masonic lodges; lived on farm until about 16 years of age; entered the Confederate army, served under <strong>Gen. FORREST<\/strong>, surrendered at Gainesville, Ala., in May, 1865; in 1869 entered grocery business in Milan, Tenn.; continued the business until 1897; has been Magistrate since 1888; served as mayor of Milan in 1902 and 1903; was elected Mayor again in 1909 and still serves as such; Democrat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Milan EDWARDS, R. E., cotton buyer; born Carroll Co. Tenn., in 1848; son of W. J. and Marjorie (Algee) EDWARDS; English descent; educated Bethel College; married in 1873; member of K. of P. and Masonic lodges; lived on farm until about 16 years of age; entered the Confederate army, served under Gen. FORREST, surrendered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1760,21,58,4409,4419],"tags":[3105,845],"class_list":{"0":"post-8330","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-bethel-college","7":"category-carroll","8":"category-gibson","9":"category-surname-e","10":"category-x_featured-image-no","11":"tag-algee","12":"tag-edwards","13":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8331,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8330\/revisions\/8331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}